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External polls are not the ones that politicians pay any attention to. This is why the polling that we got to see in 2016 was hopelessly wrong and not much better last year. They have their own internal polling mechanisms that account for things like voting intention in an individual household. It's harder in America where people are not required to vote (as they are in Australia). Now that the Republicans at the state level are making it harder to vote things will only get worse. With people like Manchin in the Senate, the problem is compounded. Much of the polling data is no doubt stored in the Cloud - let's hope the forces of good are using Akamai and not Fastly tonight.

Here is the data from Statista on countries with high levels of pollution. China is nowhere near the top but this is not the point. Why you would be interested in my mathematical insights into "a traditional culture of distancing" makes no sense at all. Cherdano stated that he was 100% wrong - I don't agree with the concept that something/someone can be 100% anything. It lacks subtlety. Perhaps you are looking for some kind of mathematical equivalent of Godel's proof of the existence of God. You and others are missing the main point about pollution in China. The USA and most other developed countries export their pollution (and human rights abuses) to poorer countries by paying abysmally low prices for the things they produce and then turn around and complain they have a poor human rights record (hilarious considering the human rights record of many developed nations). Survivors of the Holocaust, the genocides in North and South America, the Atlantic slave trade and the genocide of Australia's first people live and breathe amongst us. The complaints about human rights abuses and pollution by the same people that benefit from the clothes on their backs and the laptops that they use to rant on this forum is a little hypocritical. Here is a report from CNN today documenting this: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/05/26/uyghur-congressional-report-jake-tapper-dnt-lead-vpx.cnn The question is not who makes the most pollution? The question is cui bono? This morning I heard that VP Harris has told Guatemalan refugees not to come to the USA. The USA buys more than $4 billion worth of goods from the people in Guatemala but the people in Guatemala that produce it get paid a pittance for it, they have no decent health care and life there is very unpleasant. Still, so long as Harris gets her coffee in the morning that's melis by you? Clearly, your education is different to mine.

If the events of the past five years prove anything at all it's that polls are of little value. Polls fall into a number of categories. 1. Genuine attempts to obtain information about the outcome of an event. There is only one poll that is worth looking at in this regard and that's the amount of money being bet on one outcome compared with another. If people aren't backing their opinions with money then they are about as valuable as the prognostications of writers in the water cooler of a Bridge Forum. 2. Other.

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Returning to more mundane matters. It now seems that haematophages (not Hrothgar in this case) are potential vectors for SARS-CoV-2. You can read the full paper here. Or look at the diagram here. The authors are careful to point out that this is still theoretical, but it does point to the known difficulty in pinpointing the elements in the chain of transmission. Biology is pretty cunning. It seems unlikely that it would need any help from a laboratory. Laboratory leakage is always possible but given what we know about SARS biology: less likely. How "less likely" is the problem.

Perhaps the problem lies in the use of the word "correlation". On a Bridge forum - full of people with a maths background - it has a very specific meaning. In the social sciences, the meaning could be somewhat looser. Who knows what he actually said or meant or what was lost in translation. Or even what the question was. My sister used to get asked questions by the London press of the form - "Is there any relationship between hair colour and eating disorders in women?" What she called the "Lady Di question." People "see" relationships between things where none exists all the time. On this forum problems related to "Theory of Mind" are a major source of excitement. In a recent study published in Nature, electrodes were used to record neuronal responses to people being asked questions along the lines of "if you hide something that Tom put on the counter, where does Tom think it is?" Unsurprisingly some neurons were activated and some were not.

I think you will find that they are paraphrasing Mein Kampf.

Yes, but he isn't improving. Anytime he speaks I get the sense that I'm having a conversation with a fungus. There's no humour in his bile. Still, I suppose he's good at something - arithmetic perhaps? I give the last rant a C-.

You're very trying Richard. Not making any sense but clearly trying. Also, try to be more imaginative when insulting people. Your current level of ranting is becoming boring.

Oh look Richard - China is the engine room of the US economy. When the US blames China for all its problems it conveniently forgets that it pays China to create the problems that it complains about. A private US security firm also supplies Chinese state media with its server capacity so that it can safely pump false narratives into the atmosphere without fear of cyber attack. Good job.

Where do you think all ***** that you buy in the USA - and Australia and Europe - come from? The USA has a trade deficit with China that is more than three times larger than any other Country. China -78.6; Mexico -25.8; Vietnam -20.4 etc Blaming China for causing pollution is like blaming your car for causing pollution when you drive it. Richard talks about "Pilowsky's bullshit" He should clean up his own backyard. That's where the biggest herd of cattle is. You talk the left-wing talk but what comes out sounds just like Trump.

Mad as a hat and silly as a wheel. But one-third of the US population voted for him. And will do it again tomorrow. Racism isn't the only systemic problem in the USA.

Suppose you could try Netscape if it bugs you that much. Jim Clark would be delighted.

It would be interesting if a difference existed since the new version of Edge uses Chrome as the basis for its browser functionality.

No, he's right and you are wrong. Some parts of China - which is a huge country by landmass - have 'high pollution' - most of it does not. Your understanding of Chinese culture seems to be close to zero.

Just in from the Australian Broadcasting Commission: "Regional Victorians no longer need a reason to leave home." I'm sure they'll be delighted.

Perhaps it is linking to an old site. Try deleting it and putting this link in the Browser: https://www.bridgebase.com/v3/ 'https://www.bridgebase.com/v3/ I just updated Firefox and this link takes me to the correct place. When you say 'Adobe' it sounds like you are being re-directed to the now-defunct Adobe Flash version.

STARTLING JUXTAPOSITION In the latest from Australia comes news about Ben Roberts-Smith who is suing the non-Murdoch news media for Defamation because: it was reported that he "committed war crimes in Afghanistan and punched a woman in the face" (in Canberra - as reported on the news a moment ago). That was the first item, followed by an item on University students, Then this headline and story "Warning for pets as rat poison antidote faces shortage"Pet owners in NSW are being urged to be vigilant to protect their animals from mouse baits, due to a critical, national shortage of antidote. Then an item about a COVID-19 outbreak in NSW - remember COVID?

Just so you know that nuttiness is not confined to the USA (I'm sure you didn't) here is an example of Senator Pauline Hanson explaining to an Admiral at a Senate hearing why Australian submarines can only stay underwater for 20 minutes at a time. http://bit.ly/Hanson20Min Hanson is (in)famous in Australia for responding to a reporter who asked "Are you xenophobic?" with "Please explain". On the political spectrum, she lies somewhere to the Right of Bobert and Greene. Watch the Admiral desperately trying to maintain a semblance of self-control instead of leaping out of his chair and...

Well, to be fair to GIB, I was South. Also, thanks for calling my bid 'balanced'.

Then you will be interested to know that there is a move afoot for part of Oregon to join Idaho. Someone suggested they call it "Oregaho". Whenever I hear politicians in America talking about "working together for the good of the 'American People'." or "bipartisanship" I have to laugh. A major problem in American politics - when viewed from Australia - is the idea that politicians should be able to vote according to "their conscience" according to "what they believe is right". In fact, people like me don't give a rats ass about what they "think is right" or "their conscience". That's not what I voted for. I voted for the policies of the party. Who cares what Joe Schmo from Hotzeplotz thinks about. He can move to Oregaho if he (or she) isn't going to represent the platform of the party I voted for. Such people get booted from the party very quickly in Australia.

As people that know how to play Bridge keep saying to me: "Try to imagine what that would look like". I think the answer lies somewhere in between Northern Ireland, the Middle East and the average thread on Bridgewinners.

South has 'style'? Thank you

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[hv=pc=n&n=saj75hajt2dj4cq65&d=w&v=b&b=4&a=1c]133|200 From yesterday's Daylong MP1. How do you evaluate the North hand? What's your call? [/hv] GIB North's choice